Sergio Vega

Sergio “Un Shaka” Vega was created into a music family within the working-class rural town of Ciudad Obregon, within the condition of Sonora, Mexico. The eighth son in a family group of 13, Sergio resided among uncles and users of a protracted family who play tunes and sing just before moving out for the day’s function. Surrounded by track, the youthful Sergio was raised with hardly any, but also for his immersion in local Mexican music. At age 19, Sergio immigrated to america, to become listed on his brothers Jesus and Ramon, who have been surviving in Phoenix, AZ. Functioning construction throughout the day and playing pubs at night along with his brothers beneath the group name Los Hermanos Vega, Sergio obtained valuable performance knowledge before time for Mexico. A short while afterwards, the Vega brothers came back with their homeland and started documenting and performing beneath the name Los Reyes del Norte. Vega’s initial strike, “Como la Lluvia,” gained the group some identification. It had been during those start that Sergio gained his nickname “Un Shaka,” due to the fearless quality he distributed to the well-known Zulu warrior. As his group obtained popularity, the necessity for a definite name arose. Los Shakas del Norte started documenting for a little local indie label, though it wasn’t a long time before Vega’s skill and charisma had been discovered with the majors. A hard period, fraught with alcoholic beverages and substance abuse, shortly clouded Vega’s skill and artistic eyesight. Vega retired from music, and virtually became dropped between 2001 and 2003. Within a dramatic go back to the documenting sector and his supporters, Vega released Me Gusta Estar Contigo in 2004, getting him a location in the Billboard Latin graphs and his highest product sales up to now. In 2005, Sergio acquired the misfortune of shedding his sibling Ramon, his musical coach. Plaza Nueva premiered that season in his storage. Through the entire remainder from the 10 years, Vega documented prodigiously, with a lot of his produces featuring ballads within the narcocorrido design that targets subjects linked to medication sellers and trafficking; his albums included 2006’s Necesito Creditedña and Puros Madrazos: Rancheras y Corridos; 2007’s Dueno de Ti… Lo Mejor de Un Shaka and Cuando un Sol Salga al Revés; 2009’s Quien Ha sido Usted and Puras Cumbias; and 2010’s Rey de la Banda con Norteño and Millonario de Amor. Vega acquired become among local Mexican music’s great exponents, openly writing his tale of rebirth and delivery from drug abuse, even though he provided credit to God for his second possibility at lifestyle, he was tragically lessen June 26, 2010 at age 40 when shot to loss of life by gunmen inside a pickup truck who pursued his reddish Cadillac as he drove toward a planned festival appearance in a Sinaloan city. Vega’s murder happened simple hours after he previously refuted false on the web reports that he previously been killed.